The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to "supplementary activities" consisting, in particular, in the sequestration of carbon in agricultural soils. Considering the importance of its agricultural land and its weak possibilities of low-cost reduction...

We consider a model with two energy sources, a non-renewable one, cheap but polluting, and a renewable one, expensive but clean, let’s say coal and solar. The aim of environmental policy is to maintain atmospheric carbon concentration under a given ceiling, chosen to prevent an excessive rise...

This paper thoroughly studies the existence of sustainable optimal growth path, in an economy whose productive activities generate for pollution emissions. This pollution stockpiles in the ecosystem. The decrease of the environmental quality affects people by reducing their welfare. We look for...

The present issue of Annals of Economics and Statistics attests the vitality of the research in environmental and natural resource economics in France, after the special issues of Revue d’Économie Politique in 2008 and Économie et Prévision in 2009, to cite the more recent evidence only....